Cigarette-making device



A. POLI.

ClGARETTE MAKING DEVICE.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 8. 1919.

1,304,598. Patented May 27," 1919.

FEB. I68- INVENTOR M @ZQ A TTORNE Y ALPHERIA IPOLI, 0F WALSENTBURG, COLORADO.

CIGARETTE-MAKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application file'd March 8, 1919. Serial No. 281,453.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHERIA .PoLI, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Walsenburg and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Making Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- This invention pertains to cigarette making devices and the object of the inventlon is to produce a simple, practical and eflicient device, which may be easily carried in the vest pocket and with which tobacco cigarettesmay be rapidly made by a smoker as he requires same in use.

)Vith this object in view, attention is called to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this speclfication, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one of the devices as used for making cigarettes Fig. 2 is a sectional, side elevation showing a part of the tube andpart of the hop' per cut away so as to reveal the action of the plunger;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view;

Fig. 4 is a bottom end view showing the corrugated construction of the tube.

Fig. 5 is a detail showing a method of forming a lock at the upper end of the wire plunger by bending the wire forwardly, then down and backwardly and slightly to one side.

In carrying out my invention in its preferred construction, I provide a corrugated tube (1) of a suitable diameter for forming standard cigarettes. This tube (1) is corrugated longitudinally as shown at (2) to lessen friction and so as to enable the cigarette wrapper (3), wrapped about the same, to be readily withdrawn from the tube (1) in the process of making the cigarette 1). At the upper end of the tube (1) is rigidly attached a flattened, funnel-like hopper (5), the spread of the hopper being extended almost entirely toward the one side (6) leaving the other side (7) almost in alinement with the walls of the tube A lobe (8) is extended from the side (7) of the hopper (5) inwardly over the bore (9) of the tube (1) and a small plunger guidehole (10) ispierced through this lobe (8). Through the plunger guide-hole (10) is slidingly mounted a wire plunger (11), said plunger being bent at the upper end to form a suitable handle (12) and being twisted or gnarled at its lower endto form the shoe (13) adapted to engage the tobacco (14) as same is fed into the wrapper (3) during the process of making a cigarette. The handle (12) is preferably completed by bending the wire first forwardly at right angles to the plunger (11), then down and back upon itself, after which the extreme end (15) is bent slightly to one side, thus forming an opening (16) adapted to receive the lobe (8) edgewise by twisting or turning said plunger, so as to'lock the plunger' (11) down fed on down into the said wrapper and compressed into place by means of the plunger (11). When the wrapper is entirely filled and withdrawn from the metal tube (1), the cigarette 1) is complete. It will be noted that the corrugated formation of the tube (1) enables the wrapper to be easily withdrawn from the metal tube, inasmuch as there is ver'y slight friction between the two. This device is simple in construction as it can be stamped from a single piece of sheet metal. It is light and easy to carry about and makes cigarettes quickly and of compact form and neat shape.

While I have herein described a certain specific method of constructing and assem- Patented. May 27, 1919.

bling the elements of my invention, it-is understood same may be varied in minor details, 'not departing from the spirit of my invention as defined in the appended claim.

A cigarette making device, comprising a feed tube for feeding tobacco into the cigaretgte wrapper; -a feed-hopper mounted at What I claim to be new and patentable the top of said feed-tube as means for feeding tobacco through said tube; a lobe extended from the upper edge of the feedhopper inwardly over the bore of the feedtube, said lobe being pierced with a plunger guide-hole; a wire plunger. slidingly werdly, then down, back and to oneside, so mounted through said guide-bole in said as' to form a. lockfor engaging the lobe lobe, and ending in a handle at its upper end aforesaid.

and in a shoe at its lower end, as means for ALPHERIA POLI. 5 feeding and pressing tobacco through said Witnesses: V

tube into the cigarette wrapper, said handle WILLIAM Aomcs,

being formed by bending the wire fol- N101: Aoims. 

